As a person incarcerated in Texas, I know that rotten food and poor medical care are not unique to Delaney Hall.

What censorship of prison newspapers can tell us of where the military news outlet may be headed

A self-described “artivist” — both artist and activist — Orlando Smith uses pencil and paper to chronicle the senselessness of the criminal legal system and to indict abuses of power in the United Sta...

All I had was a smock. It was padded and itchy, and rubbed my skin raw. For months, desperate for a blanket, I had no way to keep warm.

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Blocking reading materials and censoring writing are both ways that prisons erase expression before it can reach an audience.

by Jeremy Busby with Deborah Zalesne

Reporters create records when the death penalty goes wrong. Indiana's ban on press at executions seeks to prevent that.

Daniel Sanchez Estrada’s 30-year sentence for moving a box of pamphlets is likely just the start for criminalizing possession of information.

Daniel Sanchez Estrada’s 30-year sentence for moving a box of pamphlets is likely just the start for criminalizing possession of information.

Reporters create records when the death penalty goes wrong. Indiana's ban on press at executions seeks to prevent that.

Jeremy Busby writes about prison food illness and why meals served inside jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers routinely make people sick.

The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.

The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

Brendan Carr is advancing a plan to choke communications for people who use cellphones to expose abuses in prison.

YouTube video by Kaleidoscope Content

YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation

Jeremy Busby shares how fatherhood in prison transformed his life and gave him renewed purpose despite devastating obstacles.

Larry Hoover remains locked up in Illinois, handing Donald Trump an opportunity to one-up his Democratic rivals.

Suicides and homicides are already rising in Texas prisons. Restricting visits and communication will only deepen despair, not stop drugs, Texas inmate Jeremy Busby writes.

The thought of ending up in El Salvador’s CECOT, like my brother, makes many people at San Quentin nervous.

It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant.

At 18, Bobby Bostic was sentenced to 241 years in prison. Now out on parole, he’s sharing the healing power of writing in juvenile detention centers.

Brendan Carr is advancing a plan to choke communications for people who use cellphones to expose abuses in prison.

It’s stressful when anyone dies on your wing, especially when no one ever tells you what happened.

John J. Lennon tells Bill Keller that he “wanted to tell a different story about the guilty” in his new book.

A recent decision from the FCC will keep jail and prison phone calls more costly for at least the next couple years.

In a Q&A with Prism, abolitionist organizer Kelly Hayes discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, and activists

YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation

InvestigateWest reporting exposes sexual abuse by guards, retaliation against victims and a system that fails to track the scope of the problem

Defending press freedom for the next generation

The United States is the only nation in the world where a child can be legally sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Michael Montgomery is one such survivor of what he calls th…

Chicago journalist Steve Held, the co-founder of Unraveled Press, was allegedly targeted and detained by federal agents in Broadview, Illinois.

Over 5.5 million Californians, including 2 million children, are set to lose their SNAP benefits this Saturday.

Months before his death, Ralph Marcus explained how a COVID-era leg injury led to a rare bone cancer that didn’t have to be fatal.

The British journalist and commentator plans to fight deportation rather than simply board a plane and go home.

Plus: Deported journalist speaks out

Students and faculty with SDSU’s prison journalism program raise concerns about limited resources.